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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES. 



HENRY B. ANTHONY. 







DeliveredMi the &eiiate 



MEMORIAL ADDRESSES, 



ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS ; 



DELIVERED IN THE 



SENATE OE THE UNITED STATES 



HENRY B. ANTHONY. 



\ SENATOR FROM klhuiK ISLAND, 



PROVIDENCE: 
S I I) N E V S RID E R. 

1875- 



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STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS. 



Stephen A. Douglas, died in Chicago, June 3, 1861. 

( )n (lie 9th of duly following, at the special session of ( !on- 
gress, resolutions nf respect to his memory were introduced 
inld tiic Senate. < hi these resolutions Mr. Anthony ad- 
dressed the Senate as follows: — 

Mr. President: To the affectionate ] anises of friends, and 
(he magnanimous eulogies of rivals, I hope it will not he 
deemed presumptuous, if I add a few remarks from one who 
sustained towards the subject of these resolutions the relation 
of personal friendship and of political antagonism. 

I first met Mr. Douglas soon alter he had taken his sent 
in this body, in whose debates and deliberations he had al- 
ready begun to hold a leading part, and with whose history 
his name has since been so closely identified. The frank 
cordiality of his manners, the unaffected kindness of his 
heart, the directness of his speech, and the readiness with 
which he declared himself upon all the questions of the day, 
made upon me that favorable impression which a, more inti- 
mate acquaintance strengthened and confirmed. 

It is not my purpose to follow his public career, or to en- 
Large upon the qualities of his character; that grateful office 
has already been performed. But I have often thought that 
in Ins indomitable energy and will, in his sturdy self-reliance, 



I M E UOBIAL Aim i: I. 8 8 i: s . 

in his earlj development, and bis rapid march to success, be 
was no unfit t.\|»- of the American character. As ;i de- 
:. Congress has afforded i<> him verj few equals, either 
in this chamber, or in the other House, where his earlier hon- 
ors were won. Inexhaustible in resources, fierce and auda- 
cious in attack, skillful and ingenious in defence, he parried 
everj thrust, and he struck with irresistible l'm\ al the weak 
poinl of lii^ adversary. He \\;is;i party man, bul he loved 
his country better than his party ; and in the crisis which 
darkened the country, in bis latter days, he rose to the full 
height of the occasion, and appeared in the full proportions 
of an American Senator. His lasl utterances were for the 
Union; his lasl aspiration was for his country; nor is thai 
country unmindful of his renown or ungrateful for bis ser- 
vices. In the perils of civil commotion, and amidsl the shock 
ol fraternal strife, she pauses to weep al bis tomb. 

Thai voice i" which we have 30 often listened with earnesl 

attention, uj which these ciowded galleries have hung, 

hour after hour, with unwearied delight, Is hushed fori 
and thai home, so late the scene of genial and graceful hos- 
pitality, is shrouded in gloom; and to those who sil in its 
chambers of darkness, il seems thai joy ran never again 
its threshold. To them I dare nol address myself; for I 
well know that, al this time, the idea of consolation would 
seem ahnosl like wrong to the dead, and thai upon their ears 
words iif tenderesl sympathy would fall almost with 1 1 1 »- 
harshness of insult. But, Mr President, you and I know 
that, in the good providence of God, time, the healer, will 
come i" them, as il comes to all, and thai what is now a bit- 
ter anguish will come to bi ened sorrow, softened bj 
the recollection of his greatness and his fame, consoled b) the 
honors which the American people will paj to his memory. 



JOHN II. THOMSON. 



On the 4tli of December, 1862, resolutions were presented 
in the Senate, declaring the regret of the body at the death 
of John R. Thomson, ami its respect for his memory. Mr. 
Anthony addressed the Senate as follows: — 

Mr. President : I am unwilling to let this occasion pass 
without adding my tribute of respect and affection for our 
departed associate. 

My acquaintance with Mr. Thomson was formed in this 
chamber. It happened that the firsl committee on which I 
was placed was one on which he had long borne a leading part. 
Hi was in the majority, I in the minority. I was charmed 
with the kindness of his reception, with his cordial address, 
and his genial manners; and our acquaintance ripened into 
friendship, as I became familiar with the quality of his tem- 
per and excellencies of his heart. At that time, as has been 
so well said by his successor, he was surrounded by the men 
who were the controlling senators in this body, and who are 
now the chiefs of an atrocious rebellion. They were his per- 
sonal as well as his political friends ; but his friendship did 
not survive their loyalty ; and when their counsels became 
treasonable, he no longer shared in them, but openly de- 
nounced them. No consideration of partisan policy or of 
personal friendship stood between him and his country. 



6 Ml M " l; I A I, ADDRESS! 

Mr. Thomson was a man of business, thorough]] conver- 
sant with affairs, possessing an extei sive knowledge of trade 
and finance. Although liberally educated, his tastes ili'l no! 
Iiim to literary pursuits. He made uo pretensions to 
oratory. !!'■ did not aid t" weigh down the Leaden columns 
of thi I ional Globe with those abstract discussions 

which we know are nol listened i" when they are spoken, 
and which we have little reason to apprehend are read when 
printed. Bui when he had occasion to take pari in 
the discussion of practical subjects, or i" give his views upon 
measures thai aff< i s of his constituents, he ex- 

pressed himself clearly, forcibly, and to the purpose; and he 
was listened to with thai attention which a man always 
commands who speaks only when he li;i- something t" say, 
ami < u 1 1 \ on a subjecl thai he knows something about To 
whatever matter he addressed himself he brought a clear 
head, a calm judgment, and an honest pur] 

In his private character, no man could be more gui i 
and amiable; no man more faithful to his friends, or more 
charitable to bis opponents. Em □ had none, but the 

enemies of his country. The last time that I -aw him was by 
his own fireside, whe n loved to be, and wh< 

lighted to dispense its liberal and elegant hospitalities Per- 
haps the shadow of the coming event was upon him, and 
bodily weakness may have influenced his spirits, for he si 
less chi >i 1'nl than usual ; but all his com ersation was of bis 
country, and of the calamities which the rebellion had bro 
upon it; and all his aspirations were for the of our 

arms, ami for the reestablishment of the federal authority 
ovei i >< of territory that had ever been sheltered by 

its flag. Little did I then think that, before we should meet 
here again, he would receive the inevitable summons that, 
or later, calls us to the "undiscovered couutry." 



JOHN R . TH O JI SON. 



How often, Mr. President, in the brief period since 1 have 
been associated with you in the public councils, lias the shaft 
of death fallen in this chamber! First, Broderick — brave, 
faithful and true — fell, the proto-martyr in the great cause 
for which so many have since suffered ; then Douglas, "who 
had just taken from party what was meant for mankind, on 
whom his country had begun to build higher hopes than 
ever before, and when she needed all her sons as she never 
needed them before. Then Baker, the friend and eulogist of 
Broderick. passed away amidst the smoke of bal tie, his <1\ ing 
eyes fixed on the flag for which he would have poured out the 
blood of a hundred lives : then Bingham, modest, earnest, 
unselfish and true hearted ; and now Thomson, whose char- 
acter has been so faithfully portrayed by the Senators who 
have preceded me. 

Thus, Mr. President, one after another is taken from our 
councils : one chair after another stands vacant on this floor . 
familiar faces disappear; and new voices mingle in our delib- 
erations. How strikingly, even in the presence of events 
that shake a continent and arrest the attention of the world, 
do these successive monitions speak to us of our own mortal- 
ity and of the littleness of earthly concerns, in comparison 
with that future existence to whose eternal chambers this life 
is but the vestibule, the portal! And how, in that compari- 
son, does this life, though crowded with mighty interests. 
seem to us but 

'• A peevish April day ; 
A little sun, a little rain, 
And then night sweeps along the plain 

And nil things fade away.'' 



WILLIAM P. FESSENDEN. 



William Pitt Fessenden died in Portland, Septembei 
s . L869. Resolutions in honor of lii were presented 

in the Senate, on the I lili of December, 1869. On these 
resolutions Mr. Anthony addressed the Senate as follows: — 

.!//•. President: li is nol with the expectation of adding 
anything to whal has been said, bul rather foi the gratifica- 
tion i>r in \ own feelings, thai I rise to make one 'e tribute 

in the worth of our friend, whose face we shall nol sec again 
with mortal eyes. His historj has been recited bj those who 
k i u • w him from his youth, his character has been depicted 1>\ 
those who Loved him. Much of thai history passed under 
'•in- nun observation; and all of thai character was appre- 
ciated and admired hj those who were associated with him 
in this bodj . and who, by general consent, accorded to him a 
place second to thai of no man in it. 

In rendering my cordial assenl to all thai n spoken 

in praise ni' Mr. Fessenden, I onlj repeal of him dead what I 
have said of him living. Ii is the general fortune of eminent 
public men to be greatly slandered in life, and n* be unduly 
eulogized in death. It' Mr. Fessenden did nol altogether es- 
cape the former, history will admil thai even the high praise 
thai has been pronounced upon him to-day, is nol exaggerated, 
i- not the outpouring of personal friendship, which seeks relief 



WILLIAM P . FESSENDEN. 

from its sorrow in the extravagance of eulogy, but the delib- 
erate judgment, which those who were long associated with 
him had formed i if his character". That judgment, which is ex- 
pressed in words after his death, was expressed in acts during 
his life. The great weight which his counsels carried in this 
chamber, the uniform respect paid to his opinions, and the 
conspicuous positions assigned to him, all attest the estimation 
in which he was held. And this estimation was undoubtedh 
founded on real merit, for Mr. Fessenden had not the arts of 
popularity, and perhaps held in too light esteem those appli- 
ances of suavity which often cover pretension and superficial- 
oess, but by which real merit does not sometimes disdain to 
strengthen itself. Hence he relied upon factsfairly presented 
and upon arguments logically adduced, for the success of a 
measure, and, when these failed, he did not resort to personal 
solicitations or to individual persuasions. And as he did not 
make such appeals himself, so he did not yield to them, when 
they came from others. I might recall to you some remark- 
able instances in which lie argued for the convictions of his 
judgment, against all the Eorce of personal solicitations, hacked 
by his own sympathies. This temper of mind, this intellectual 
conscientiousness, gave him. with superficial observers, the 
reputation of indifference to public opinion. 

Rut this reputation was not deserved. On the contrary, I 
think that he. was sensitive to pul die opinion, and honest praise 
or censure affected him, perhaps the more because he would 
not purchase the one or conciliate the other by concessions 
that are generally regarded as venial. For that public opin- 
ion which is manufactured to order, he had great contempt, 
and flattery did not. impose upon him. Even to honest but 
transient, public opinion, founded on limited observation and 
shallow reasoning, Mr. Fessenden, I have sometimes thought, 



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1 1 ill imi give the consideration thai was due ; for this is not to be 
overlooked in shaping I< gislation : and under free institutions, 
where political parties are a necessity, statesmen cannol 
forgi i 1 1 i.i i thej are also politicians, and that, working through 
the Lnstrumentalitj of party, something mihi be conceded to 
the strengthening of thai partj which thej hold to be identi- 
fied wiili the best interests of the country. Bui genuine 
public opinion, the sentiment of thinking men, the deliberate 
judgmenl of the country, Mr. Fessenden held in profound 
respecl ; and although even to thai be would nol sacrifice his 
conscientious convictions, he differed from it cautiously and 
reluctantly . 

I!\ some, who knew him slightly, Mr. Fessenden \\;i-. re- 
garded as a haughty man. This he was not, in any offensive 
sense of the word. He was grave and reserved ; uncommonly 
quick of apprehension, he was impatient of the sometimes 
slower processes of other minds, and he carried his intolerance 
of pretense and sham to a fault ; — to a fault, because he some- 
times confounded these with what were only the harmless 
peculiarities or even the settled judgments of others; bul 
whatever be might claim for the conclusions to which he had 
brought lii> mind, he assumed no superiority for himself in 
reaching them. A truer, kinder heart beats in no living breast 
than that which now lies cold and pulseless. The universal 
affection in which he was held by those who sustained to him 
the relations of dependence and subordination is the besl 
proof of this. 

It is not given to men to achieve perfection ; else this would 
not be a Btate of discipline ; but of those elements whii 
towards it t'< • \\ possess so manj ;i> ili'l Mr. Fessenden, 
spicuous less for the fleeting graces that adorn a char; 
than for the solid virtues that dignifj and ennoble it: with 



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small portion of the manner which the great and the little 
may alike put on, with much of the qualities that only the 
great and the good possess. 

He will long be held in grateful and affectionate remem- 
brance, for his masculine and vigorous intellect, for his pure 
and honest statesmanship, for his careful and exact acquire- 
ment, for the independence which nothing could shake, for the 
integrity which nothing could corrupt ; and, underlying all, 
for that sound common sense, that intellectual as well as moral 
rectitude, upon which, as upon a basis of enduring granite, 
rose the beautiful superstructure of his character. 

How often, Mr. President, during the troublous and perilous 
times through which the nation has passed : how often, when 
clouds settled darkest upon us and dangers gathered thickest 
around us. have we felt to involve the spirits of the mighty 
dead, and to call upon the fathers of the Republic, that they 
would absent them ••from felicity awhile,"" and leaving the 
mansions of eternal rest, mingle once more in the contests 
of earthly affairs, and teach us how to preserve the institu- 
tions which their wisdom and patriotism had established ! 
And when, turning from the unanswering dead to the living 
present, we have looked to those who were wisest in coun- 
cil, firmest in purpose, and purest in heart, never did we 
fail to recognize among them him whom we now lament. 
And it seems to us that he is taken from us at a time when 
he is most needed, when the questions are impending that 
he best could grapple, when the problems are presented that 
he best could solve. We look around for those who shall 
fill his place. But there is One who doeth all tilings well. 
In the order of His providence, it is not permitted for any 
place long to remain vacant ; whomever He takes away, He 
raises up others to fill the void that is left. So it was with 



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Douglas; so il u as with Collamer j bo ii was with Foot; so 
ii was with Lincoln. Soil will be with ETessenden. And 
so, Mi. Presidenl — long distanl be the day — will il be with 
you and with others, our wisest and our best. Men die, but 
their words are lefl on record, their works remain, their ex- 
ample survives. He win* has made a record like thai we are 
now reviewing, he who has achieved a character like' thai 
which we uoyi hold up to the youth of America, may well 
say, when the supreme hour arrives — 

• \"ii omnia moriar; multaque para mei 
Vitabil Libitinam." 



NATHANAEL GREENE. 



A resolution was passed in Congress, July 2, 1864, inviting 
each State to furnish, for the old Hall of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, "two full-length marble statues of deceased per- 
sons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their 
renown, or from civic or military services, such as each State 
shall determine to lie worthy of national commemoration." 

In accordance with this resolution, the General Assemhly 
of Rhode Island transmitted to Congress a, statue of Major- 
General Nathanael Greene. On the 20th of January. 1870, 
Mr. Anthony presented in the Senate the following letter : — 

State of Rhode Island, Executive Department,) 
Provide mi:. January ::, 1870. J 

Sir: In accordance with a resolution of Congress, passed July 2, 
L864, inviting each State to furnish, for the old Hall of the House of 
Representatives, " two full-length marble statues of deceased persons 
who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their renown, or 
from civic or military services, such as each State shall determine to 
In- worthy of national commemoration," the State of Rhode Island, 
by a vote of its General Assembly, has caused to lie made two marble 
statues, one of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State, the other 
of Major-General Nathanael Greene, a distinguished officer of the 
Army of the Revolution. 



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1 have u. >\\ the honor to inform you thai the Btatue of tiajoi i 
eral Nathanael G Mi ll. K. Browne, an American artist, is 

finish d, and has been forwarded t" w ishington and delivered to the 
architect of the Capitol. 

Willi high respect, I have the honor to remain 

Four ni"-t obedient Bervan) . 

-II II P LDELFORD. 

To tin I'l.-i BED] N I >■< thl Si 1 

II . /■ ■ 

After the Letter had been read, Mr. ^nthonj addressed the 
Senate as follows : — 

Mr. President: I am charged — we are charged, mj col- 
Leagues of the two Houses of Congress and myself, by the 
Governor of the State which we represent, — \\ iili the honor- 
able duty of presenting to Congress, in his name and in the 

n; • of the i reneral Assembly and of the ; the State 

of Rhode [sland and Providence Plantations, a marble statue 
of Nathanael < rreene. 

This statue has been placed in the old II. ill of the II 
of Representatives, in pursuance of an act of Congress, by 
which thai beautiful chamber, itself rich in precious memo- 
ries, is dedicated to historic valor, to patriotism, to statesman- 
ship, to learning, to conspicuous excellence in all the elements 
thai constitute national greatness. 

The heroic age of our countrj is enveloped in no fable, 
and the historian is no a to doubtfu 5, to mar- 

vels and portents to add to the dignity of its origin, noi 

sorl to fanciful legends t<> increase the interesl of lii> 
narration. The stalwarl men who planted the colonies from 
which tin - ise have Left the authentic memorials of 

their principles and their actions, their trials and their tri- 
umphs. And the men whose valor achii independ 



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of the country, and whose wisdom founded the institutions of 
the great republic, are separated from us by so short a period, 
and one of such active historical inquiry, that their lives and 
characters stand before us, almost as if they had lived in our 
daily presence. 

By the act of Congress referred to, each State of the Union 
is invited to place in the old Hall of the House of Representa- 
tives the statues of two of her illustrious citizens, already 
consecrated by death, who flourished in any period of her his- 
tory. Rhode Island, whichhas the earliest responded to the 
invitation, has selected for this honor two of her early heroes, 
one from the colonial and one from the revolutionary period. 

The first is Roger Williams, the great Founder of the State, 
who first declared and maintained the principle at the founda- 
tion of all true civilization, SOUL liberty, the right of every 
man to worship God according to his own conscience, respon- 
sible to no human laws, restrained by no interposition of 
( Ihurch or State. Of Roger Williams there exists no portrait- 
ure, nor, so far as I am aware, any reliable description of his 
person or his features. lie lives, nut in the breathing marble 
or upon the glowing canvas, but immortal, in the everlasting 
principle which he first asserted and vindicated, and which, 
now recognized as an essential part of human society, was 
then regarded as nothing better than impracticable and mis- 
chievous fanaticism. The State, unwilling that the great 
name of her Founder should be unrepresented in this solemn 
assemblage of fame, has decreed, in its commemoration, an 
ideal statue, made from such scanty materials as tradition has 
supplied. She could do no more, and she felt that she should 
do no less. 

In this respect, the memory of Greene is more fortunate. 
His statue is from authentic likenesses, and represents him 



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•• in liis habil as be lived," and in the full prime and 
of bis manhood. It was executed by Henry Kirke Browne, 
whose name, already of high reputation, will receive fresh 
honors from his latest work. As a producl of American 
mi ii is confident]] sul mitted to the judgment of criticism. 

Mr. President, we have jusl passed through, m>t yet alto- 
gether through, the severest trial in the history of our country. 
The popular heart beats high with grateful admiration for 
valor and conduct proved in the field, for wisdom displayed 
in the cabinet. The country joyfully decorates her hi 
with her freshest laurels, and heaps upon her soldiers 

statesmen her selectest h >rs. W 5 tors, interpreting 

the will of the nation, have been prompt to render, from 
this chamber, our contributions to the national gratitude. 
And ii is right that it should be so. The Republic is 
stronger, as well as juster, when thus 1 ring her de- 
fenders, and presenting such rewards to the emulation of 
the rising generation. 

But while we render all due honor to living valor, while we 
proudly hand over to the Muse of History the mighty names 
that have illustrated ourrecent annals, it is well to freshen the 
recollection of those \\ hose fame she has long had in her keep- 
While we celebrate the praises of those who ha 
the country, let us not forget those without whom we should 
not have had ;i country to be saved ; those « ho, in the begin- 
. fev, in numbers, feeble in power, s<;mt "f resources, but 
strong in the principles which they had inherited with their 
3, armed with the Btern virtues that are born of 
difficult] and nurtured in peril and privation, dared to defy 
the might of England; who trod the pathway of victory 
with bleeding feet, and upheld the banner of independence 
with hands 1 1 1:1 1 were wasted by famine. 



NATHANAEL GREENE. IT 

While the names of Vicksburg, Kurt Donelson, and Roan- 
oke Island, South Mountain, and Antietam, and Gettysburg, 
and Appomattox, should be kept fresh in the memory of the 
country, let nut the earlier glories of Lexington and Bunker 
Hill, of Princeton, and Trenton, and Stony Point, of ( uw pens 
and Eutaw Springs, of Saratoga and Ybrktown, be ever for- 
gotten; nor yet those of Chippewa, Plattsburg, and New 
( Weans. 

Among those who, in the revolutionary period, won tiiles 
to the national gratitude never disavowed, he whose statue 
we have placed in the ( iapitol, stands, in the judgment of bis 
contemporaries and by the assent of history, second only to the 
man who towers without a peer in the annals of America. 

I shall not attempt an analysis <<\' Ins character, nor an 
enumeration of the great deeds upon which his fame securely 
rests ; nor shall I discuss that fertility of resources by which 
he supplied an arm\ from an impoverished country, without 
disaffecting the popidation ; that marvellous skill and conduct 
by which he wrung the results of victory from the very jaws 
of defeat, and. with inferior forces, drove and scattered before 
him a well-appointed, disciplined enemy. Hushed with the 
insolence of conquest : that self-reliance and persistence by 
which he refused every suggestion to abandon the southern 
campaign, and, from the Held of disaster, declared, " I will 
recover the Carolinas or perish in the attempt." How well 
be proved these words no idle boast, how well he kept his 
pledge, I do not propose to repeat. All this has been recently 
dune by an abler band. A literary monument, more durable 
than marble, and destined to a permanent place in the litera- 
ture of the language, has just been completed to his memory, 
by one who inherits his blood and his name, and whose pen 
is worthy of his grandfather's sword. 



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I'.in [ cannol refrain from bringing to the attention of the 

Senate a e passages from the eulogium pronounced upon 

Genera] Greene, bj Alt sandei Hamilton, before the S( 
of the Cincinnati, [t was expected thai Washington would be 
present, bul illness kepi him away; bul there were many 
there who bad served with the orator and with the departed 
chief. \" ii in -. c fitted than Hamilton to discuss 

the character and services of Gret ne. No audience was bet- 
ter fitted to judge of the justness of the estimate which he 
pul upon them : — 

I rom you who knew and loved him I fear nol the imputation "t 
flatter] . or enthusiasm, when 1 indulge an expei tation thai the Dame 
of Greene will al om n in your minds the images of whatever 

is noble or estimable in human aature. The fidelity of the portrait I 

shall draw will therefore have nothing to apprehend fr yoursen- 

t< in e. Bul 1 dare nol hope thai it will meel with equal ju-ti. 
all others; or that it will entin jof ignorance and the 

shaf ts of envy. Forhigh i stood in the estimation of 

his country, the whole extent of his worth was little known. The situ- 
ations in « hich he has appeared, though such as would have measured 

iculties and exl ol men who might justly 

challenge the epithet of great, were yel incompetent to the full dis- 
play of those various, rare and exalted endowments, with which 
nature only now and then decorates a favorite, as if with intention 
stonisb mankind. 

\- a man, the virtui I ire admitted; as a patriot, he 

holds a place in the foremost rank; at sman, he is pi 

oldier, he is admired. Bul in the two last characters, especially 
in the last bul one, his) falls far below his desert It re- 

quired a longer life, and -till opportunities, to have enabled 

him to exhibit, in full day, the vast, 1 had almost said thi 
powers of his mind. 
" The termination . i ' nwar -not too soon for his ti 

■ for the welfare of his country, bul too soon for hisglorj 

an end to his milil in cari i r. The sudden termination of his i I 



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him off from those scenes which the progress of anew, immense, and 
unsettled empire could not fail to open to the complete exertion of 
that universal and pervading genius which qualified him not less for 
the senate than for the field. 

" In forming our estimate, nevertheless, of his character, we are not 
left to supposition and conjecture, we are not left to vague indications 
or uncertain appearances, which partiality might varnish or prejudice' 
disc. .lor. We have a succession of deeds, as glorious as they arc un- 
equivocal, to attest the greatness and perpetuate the honors of his 
name." ******** 

" He was not long there before the discerning eye of the American 
Fabius marked him out as the object of his confidence. 

"His abilities entitled him to a preeminent share in the councils of 
his chief. He gained it, .and he preserved it, amid all the checkered 
varieties of military vicissitude, and in defiance of all the intrigues of 
jealous and aspiring rivals. 

"As long as the measures which conducted us safely through the 
first most critical stages of the war shall be remembered with appro- 
bation ; as long as the enterprises of Trenton and Princeton shall be 
regarded as the dawnings of that bright day which afterward broke 
with such resplendent lustre; ;is long as the almost magic operations of 
the. remainder of the memorable winter, distinguished not more bj 
these events than by the extraordinary spectacle of a powerful army 
straitened within narrow limits by the phantom of a military force, 
and never permitted t.> transgn ss those limits with impunity, in which 
skill supplied the place of means, and disposition was the substitute 
for an army; as long, I say, as these operations shall continue to be 
the objects of curiosity and wonder, so long ought the name of Greene 
to be revered by a grateful country. 

"To attribute to him a portion of the praise which is due, as well 
to the formxtion as to the execution of the plans that effected these 
important ends, can be uo derogation from that wisdom and magna- 
nimity which knew how to select and embrace councils worthy of 
being pursued. 

" The laurels of a Henry wei'e never tarnished by the obligations 
he owed and acknowledged to a Sully." 



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\ ter reviewing his service in the Jersej battles, the eulo- 
gisl passes to the southern campaign, where Greene, by the 
express selection of Washington, was placed in command :— 

■■ Henceforth w< are to view hi in on ;i i v exalted eminence. He 

is no longer to figure in unambiguous or secondary light; In- is to 
- 1 1 i i n ■ forth the artificer of lii- own glor} the leader of armies and 
deliverer of Stales J" •••••• 

" Greene, without further delay, entered upon thai bus}', compli- 
cated, and extraordinary scene which maj trulj I" -:>i.| to forma 
phenomenon in war— a Bccnc which almost continually presents us, on 

1 1 le hand, with \ ictories ruinous to the \ iclors; on the other, with 

retreats beneficial to the Viinquished; which exhibits 1 ir admiration 

a commander almosl constantly obliged to relinquish the field to his 
adversary, yel as constantly making acquisitions upon him; beaten 
to-day; to-niorrow, withoul a blow, compelling the conqueror to re- 
the verj objeel for which he had conquered, and in a manner 
1,1 iK from the verj foe which lie had subdued." 

Speaking of the bold determination of Greene, after the 
battle of Guilford Court-House, to return to South Carolina, 
instead of going to the rescue of Virginia, threatened by a 
junction of ( lornwallis and Arnold, Hamilton says : — 

" This was one of those strokes thai denote superior genius and 
constitute the sublime of war. Ii \\:i~ Scipio leaving Hannibal in 
Ii;ih to <>\ ercoine him al ( 'arthag 

" The success was answerable to the judicious boldness of th< de- 
sign. The enemy were divested of their acquisitions in South < laro- 
lina and Georgia »iili ;i rapidity which, if nol ascertained, would l»' 
scarcely credible. In the shorl space of two months nil Iheir posts in 
the interior of the countrj were reduced. The perse^ erance, courage, 
enterprise, and resource displayed bj the American general, in the 
course of these events, commanded the admiration even of his enemies. 
In vain «;i- he defeated in one mode of obtaining his object; another 
nstanth substituted thai answered the end. In vain was he re- 
pulsed before a besieged fortress; he immediately found other means 



KATHANAEL GREENE. 21 



of compelling its defenders to relinquish their stronghold. Where 
force failed, address and stratagem still won the prize." 

Washington measured his words with can', and was diary 
of praise. Tn a letter to Greene, upon his retirement from 
the office of Quartermaster-General, he wrote: — 

"You have conducted the various duties of it with capacity and 
diligence, entirely to my satisfaction, and as far as I have had an op- 
portunity of knowing, with the strictest integrity. When you were 
prevailed on to undertake the office in March, 1778, it was in great 
disorder and confusion, and by extraordinary exertions yen so arranged 
it a~ to enable the Army to take the field the moment it was neces- 
sary, ami to move with rapidity after the enemy, when they left Phila- 
delphia. From that period to the present time your exertions have 
been equally ureal. The} have appeared to me to be the result of 
system, and to have been well calculated to promote the interests and 
honor of your country. In fine, I cannot but add that the States have 
had in you. in my opinion, an able, upright, and diligent servant." 

General Greene died tit the age id' forty-four. What might 
the country have reasonably expected from the full life id' the 
man who, at so early tin age had accomplished so much ? The 
administrative qualities that lie manifested throughout his 
whole military service designated him for a great civil career, 
which, probably, would not have stopped short of the highest 
honors of the Republic. But a true life is measured by what 
it accomplishes, not by the time that it lingers. He lived 
long enough tn secure fur his name a place high on the en- 
during records of his country, forever in the affections of the 
American people. 

On the 8th of August, ITS'!, Congress, on the report of a 
committee consisting of Mr. Lee, Mr. Pettit, and Mr. Car- 
rington, adopted the following resolutions: — 

•• Resolved,Tha,i a monument be erected to the memory of Xathan- 
ael Greene, esq., at the seat of the Federal Government, with the 
following inscription : — 



.... 



MEMORIAL \ 1> l> I: I. - 



" S icred to the m< morj "i Nathanael Greene, esq., a n ktive of the 
of Rhode bland who died on the 19th of June, 1786, late m 
general in the service ol the United States, and commander of their 
Arniv in the southern department 

"' The United States in l I, in honor of his patriot- 

ism, valor, ; 1 1 » > 1 ability, h > ■! ilii- monument. 

■• Resolved, Thai tin- Board "i Treasury take order for the execu- 
- ilution." 

This measure of national gratitude was not carried out. 

We think thai we shall not be charged with undue State 
pride, if we submit thai the marble which we now presenl to 
you is a worthy commencement of the collection which it 
md which is t" hand down t" the future the 
glories of the past, the Valhalla of Vmerica. Others will be 
placed by ii> side, worthy of the augusl companionship. The 
future citizen will walk with pal riotic awe among the effigies 

of his c try's grandeur, and gather inspiration, as be sur- 

bheir vem rated forms. States, yel i" bi admitted into 
the Union, will crowd yonder Hall with the statues of their 
founders, defenders, and benefactors, till the greal dome of 
bhe Capitol shall be too small to cover the silenl assembly of 
our immortal dead. 

Mr. Sumner introduced the following resolution, which, after 
speeches from the mover, from Mr. Sawyer of South < larolina, 
and IV. mii Mr. Morrill of Vermont, was unanimously adopted: 

Resolved, That th •.■.! in the 

i ; ivernor, and through him to the ] pie of the Si I -Ian. I 

and Providence PI mi itions, I'm- the statue "I' M ijor-General < rreene, 

ily i l.-iiiiii • ! with our revolutionary history ; 

thai this work of arl is accepted in th >l the nation and as-; 

II ill "fill CTouf ol Representatives, already 

• ir ili>- -i ttues of eminent >iii/ ins; and 

that a copy of this resolution, P ot the Senate 

and the Sp r of ill i II ius ■ of I! ipresenl itives, be transmitted t" 

the Governorol S of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 



EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GENERAL GREENE. 



On the 12th of May, 1874, Mr. Anthony introduced a con- 
current resolution with these remarks : — 

it//-. President : I offer a concurrent resolution which 
requires a few words of explanation. Several timely and 
appropriate resolutions which have been offered by my friend 
on my right, the chairman of the Committee on Public Build- 
ings and Grounds, [Mr. Moeeill of Vermont,] and the 
interest which the Senate has manifested in the embellish- 
ment of the Capitol grounds, have brought freshly to my mind 

a duty long neglected, towards one of the most illustrious 
names in American history. 

Mr. President, it is well on towards an hundred years since 
the Continental Congress decreed a statue to Nathanael 
Greene, whose sudden and premature death, in the fullness 
of his fame and in the earhy prime of his manhood, had im- 
pressed his countrymen with a sense of national bereavement, 
to which Congress hastened to give expression. I say "a 
st;il ue." The words of the resolution are : — 

" Resolved, That a monument be erected to the memory of Nathan- 
ael Greene, esq., at the seat of the Federal Government, with the 
following inscription: — 

" ' Sacred to the memory of Nathanael Greene, esq., a native of the 
State of Rhode Island, who died on the l'Jth of June, 1786, late major- 
general in the service of the United Stales, and commander of their 
Army in the southern department. 



-I MEMORIAL Aiiin:i;>M 

"'The United States in Congress assembled, in 1 ■ of his patriot- 
ism, valor and ability, have erected tl>i- monument.' 

•• Resolved, Thai the Board • •! Treasury take order for the execu- 
tion "I the fori going 1 1 solution." 

li is manifest that a statue, an equestrian statue, is so much 
the mosl suitable form of a monument, in Buch case, thai it 
iiia\ be said to be the onlj suitable one. I presume thai no 
other « "iilil be i hough! of. 

I btless, a main reason why this resolution of Congress 

was in. i prompt!} carried oul was thai the seal of the Federal 
Governmenl had nol been established. 

This has, long since, been ilc.nr. and Washington is fasl 
assuming the proportions, adopting the conveniences, and 

putting ..11 the adon mts thai befii the capita,] city of a 

v."\ ernmenl of fortj millions ..!' people. 

Architecture, the mosl useful of the fine arts, naturally led 
the way. The public buildings of Washington, completed 
and in process of construction, are among the finest in the 
world. The capitals of Europe offer nothing to surpass them ; 
and Athens, in the age of her puresl taste, would nol have 
disdained the Corinthian beaut) of ronder eastern Front, or 
the I >oric majest} of the Patent-! (ffice. Sculpture and paint- 
ing follow in natural order. Already, in the public squares, 
and in the circles and spaces where the greal avenues thai 
bear the names of the States intersect the rectangular streets, 
the forms of heroes and statesmen rise, like sentinels, over- 
looking the city and keeping perpetual watch, in marble and 
in bronze, over the Governmenl with whose glory their 
lives were identified. 

This edifice in which we hold our deliberations is one of 
the most splendid structures that the hands of man have piled 
upon the Bolid earth. It- adornment lias hardly begun. As 



EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GEN. GREENE. 2.) 

the years roll on. the statues of the mighty dead \\ ill not only 
crowd the hall dedicated to them, but will meet the eye in 
the corridors and passages and wherever there is appropriate 
space. The walls will be covered with pictures representing 
the great events in American history ; and the sister arts will 
preserve the lineaments of the men who have made that his- 
tory illustrious, and will thus hold them up, silent monitors, 
before the eyes of those who have succeeded to their respon- 
sibilities. 

The grounds of the Capitol have just been enlarged, and 
measures have been taken for their proper embellishment. 
To this embellishment sculpture will largely contribute. 
There must be numerous statues at the entrances and in the 
grounds. Taking the long roll of those whose immortal mem- 
ory will claim this distinction, and hut a, moderate number el' 
whom can be accommodated, no one would omit the name of 
the second General of the Revolution, even if the place had 
not been dedicated to him. first of all, by resolution of Con- 
gress. To keep in mind thai pledge to preserve to him the 
place already assigned to him, and to designate its exact loca- 
tion, is the purpose of the resolution. 

The concurrent resolution was read and agreed to, as 
follows : — 

Whereas, the Continental Congress resolved, on the Sth of August. 
L786, that a monument be erected at the scut of the Federal Govern- 
ment bearing the inscription, " Sacred to the memory of Nathanael 
Greene, esq., a native of the State of Rhode Island, who died on the 
19th of June, 1780, late major-general in the service of the United 
States, and commander of their Army in the southern department. 
The United States, in Congress assembled, in honor of his patriot- 
ism, valor, and ability, have erected this monument:" Therefore, 

Be it enacted by the Senate, (tin House of Representatives concurring,) 
That the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be instructed 



26 MEMOBIA.l V DDR ESS 



to di ugnate upon the • apitol grounds i site i"i an equestrian statue 
; \ tthanael Greene, in conformity with the foregoing resolution. 

The resolution was adopted, and concurred in by il • II 
of Representatives. 

At ,i subsequent period of the same Bession, an appropria- 
tion of fortj thousand dollars was made for the erection of an 
equestrian statue of General Greene on the Capitol grounds. 



ROGER WILLIAMS. 



On the 9th of January 1S72, Mr. Sprague offered a let- 
ter from the Governor of Rhode Island to the Vice-President 
of the United States, presenting to Congress a marble statue 
of Roger Williams, to be placed in the old Hall of the House 
of Representatives, in accordance with the invitation ex- 
tended to all the States, in the act of Congress of July 2, 
1864. At the conclusion of Mr. Sprague's remarks, Mr. An- 
thony spoke as follows : 

Mr. President : I had not intended to interpose any re- 
marks, at this time, for although it is always an easy and a 
pleasant duty for a Rhode Island man to discuss the character, 
to recount the history, and to celebrate the praises of the great 
Founder of our State, I have received no intimation, from 
those who had charge of the subject at home, that anything 
from me was expected or desired. And yet, Sir, it is hardly 
possible for a Rhode Island Senator to remain entirely silent, 
when, in this high presence, the theme is Roger Williams ; 
and 1 am sure \ou will not deem it an intrusion or an invasion 
of the province of my colleague, to whose abler hands this 
matter has been committed, and who has so well performed 
the duty assigned to him, if I detain you, very briefly, before 
the question is put. 

My colleague has well said that it was a happy idea to con- 
vert the old Hall of the House of Representatives into the 



28 MEMORIAL LDDKE8S1 

Pantheon of America. The idea originated with my distin- 
guished friend who sits upon mj right, [Mr. Morrill, of 
Vermont,] then a leading member of the House, as he is now 
of the Senate. Ii was, indeed, a bappy idea to assemble in 
1 apitol the silenl effigies of the men who have made the 
annals of the nation illustrious; th . overlooking our 

deliberations, inspiring our counsels, and animating us by 
their example, thej may seem to guard the greatness which 
th. \ [bunded or defendi d. 

And I clu no! deem this proceeding an idle form, bul rather 
■a high ceremonial of the Republic ; and 1 anticipate, with .1 
patriotic pleasure, thai ii will be repeated, from time t" 
time, until every Man- shall have senl her contribution to 
issemblage <■)' heroes and patriots ami statesmen and 
orators and poets and scholars and -of men who, in 

everj de] of greatness, have added lustre t" the Amer- 

ican name. An«l as often as this scene shall recur; when 
Virginia shall send t<> as the statue of Washington, which 

cannol !»• t. ften repeated in the Capitol; ami with ii thai 

nf Thomas Jeffers r of Patrick Henry : \\ hen North I 

lina shall send as Nathaniel Mi l; and South Carolina 

shall send as Sumter or Marion, ami Georgia shall send us 
bhorpe; when Kentucky shall send us Daniel Boone and 
lliiii\ Clay, ami Tennessee shall send as Andrew Jackson, 
ami Illinois shall send as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. 
las, and Missouri shall send us Thomas H. Benton; when 
Niw York shall send us Peter Stuyvesanf ami Alexander 
Hamilton; when Connecticul shall send us Roger Sherman 
ami Jonathan Trumbull — 1 believe thej are here already : 1 
know thai thi I both is represented in this chamber bj 

nun coming from States 1 1 1; ■ i were nol born when the names 
which their Senators worthih bear were firsl made ill ustrii 



ROGER WILLIAMS. 29 

when Vermont shall send us the stalwart form of her hero 
who thundered at the gates of Ticonderoga "in the name of 
the Continental Congress and the great Jehovah;" when 
New Jersey shall send us the great grandfather of the Senator 
who sits on the opposite side of the chamber [Mr. Stockton] 
and the uncle of the Senator who sits nearer me, [Mr. Fke- 
llnghuyssEN :] when Pennsylvania shall send us William Penn 
and Benjamin Franklin; and when Massachusetts, pausing in 
the embarrassment of her riches, looking down the lorn; list 
of her suns who, in arms, in arts, and in letters, in all the 
departments of greatness have contributed to her glory, shall, 
with hesitating fingers, select two to represent that glory here ; 
then, and on every such occasion, I trust that the spirit of 
party will cease, that the voice of faction will he hushed, 
and that we shall give an hour to the past. We shall he the 
wiser and better for it. 

In all our history mi name shines with a purer light than 
his whose memorial we have lately placed in the Capitol. In 
the history of all the world, there is a no more striking exam- 
ple of a man grasping a grand idea, at once, in its full propor- 
tions, in all its completeness, and carrying it out unfhnchinglj . 
to its remotest legitimate results. 

Roger Williams did not merely lay the foundation of relig- 
ious freedom ; he constructed the whole edifice, in all its im- 
pregnable strength, in all its imperishable beauty. Those 
who have followed him, in the same spirit, have not been able 
to add anything to the grand and simple words in which lie 
enunciated the principle, nor to surpass him in the exact fidel- 
ity with which he reduced it to the practical business of 
government. 

Religious freedom, which now, I >y general consent, underlies 
t he foundation principles of civilized government, was, at that 



80 MEMORIAL IDDR E8SE8. 

time, looked upon as a wilder theorj than an) proposition, 
moral, political or religious, thai has since engaged the serious 
attention of mankind. Ii was regarded as impracticable, dis- 
organizing, impious, and, if no! utterly subversive of social 
order, ii was nol so only because ii- manifest absurdity would 
prevent an) serious effort to enforce it. The lightest punish- 
ment deemed due to its confessor was to drive hi m into 

the howling wilderness. Had he not met with mimic < Ihristian 
treatment from the savage children of the forest than he had 
found from " the Lord's anointed," he would have perished in 
the beginning of his experiment. 

Mr. President, tame, what we call human glory, renown, 
is \\nii on main Gelds, ami in man) varieties of human effort. 
Some clutch ii with bloody hands, amid the smoke ami thun- 
dei oi battle. Some woo i1 in the quiet retreats of study, till 
iln 'aim seclusion is broken b) the plaudits of admiring mil- 
lions, of ever) tongue and of everj clime. Some, in contests, 

which, if not bloody, are t ften bitter and vindictive, 

ii in the forum, amid " the applause of Listening senates," 
caught up and echoed back by the tumultuous cheers of popu- 
lar adulation. All these enjoy, while the) Live, the renown 

which gilds their memories will fading glory. The praise 

which attends them is their present reward. It stimulates 
them in greater exertions and sustains them in higher Bights. 
Ami ii i- jn-i ami right. 

I in ' there is a fi of another kind, that comes in another 

way, that c es unsought, if ii comes at all: for the first 

condition fur those who achieve ii is that the) shall not set b 
it. \\ Inn a mail, in the communion "I' Ins own conscience, 
following the lessons of his own convictions, determines what 
it i- In- 'I hi \ to do, and, in obscurit) and discouragement, with 
ii" companions but difficult) and peril, goes out to >l" it — 



ROGER WILLIAMS. 31 



when such a man establishes a great principle of human con- 
duct, or succeeds in achieving a great, amelioration or a great 
benefit to the human race, without the expectation or the 
desire of reward, in present honor or in future renown, the 
fame that shines a glory around his brow is a reflection from 
(lie "|mre white light," in which the angels walk, around the 
throne of God. 

Such a man was Roger Williams. No thought of himself, 
no idea of recompense or of praise interfered to sully the 
perfect purity of his motives, the perfect disinterestedness of 
his conduct. Laboring for the highest benefit of his fellow- 
men, he was entirely indifferent to their praises. He knew, 
for God, whose prophet he was, had revealed it to him, 
that the great principle for which lie contended and for 
which he suffered, founded in the eternal fitness of things, 
would endure forever. He did not inquire if his name 
would survive a generation, in his vision of the future, 
he saw mankind emancipated from the thraldom of priest- 
craft, from the blindness of bigotry, from the cruelties of 
intolerance ; he saw the nations walking forth in the liberty 
v\ herewith Christ had made them free ; he saw no memorial 
of himself, in marble or in bronze, or in the general admira- 
tion of mankind, More than two centuries have passed since 
he flourished ; nearly two centuries have passed since he died, 
buried like Moses, for " no man knoweth of his sepulchre ;" 
and now the great doctrine which he taught pervades the 
civilized world. A grateful State sends up here the ideal 
image of her Founder and her Father. An appreciative 
nation receives it, and, through her accredited representa- 
tives, pledges herself to preserve it among her most precious 
treasures. 



JON \ I II W I IM Mill I.I. \\l» ROGER SHERM \V 



On the 8th of March, 1872, bhe Senators from Connec- 
ticut formally presented to Congress the si Jona- 
than Trumbull and Rogi Sherman, which had been placed 
in the old Hall of Representatives, in accordance of the 
same acl o I under which those of Nathanael 
Greene and Roger Williams had been placed there. Mr. 
Buckingham made the s] eech on Trumbull, Mr. Ferry 
thai "ii Sherman. V their request, the resolutions of 
acceptance were offered 03 Mr. Anthony, who spoke as 

t'n, lows : — 

I Bend to ilit- Chair two resolutions, and .i>k unanimous 
consenl for their present consideration. 
The resolutions were read, as follows: — 

Resolved by th - (thi ll- si of Representatives concurring,) 

Thai the thanks of Congress arc presented t" the Governor, and 

through liim i" the people of the State of Connecticut, for the 

oi Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman, whosi names 

are bo honorably identified with our revolutionary history. 

. That these works ire accepted in the name of 

the nation, and assigned a place in the old Hall of the House ■•! 
Representati el aside, bj ai 1 -. for stal 

of eminent citizens, and thai :> copy of IhiB resolution, signed by 
the President Senate and the Speaker ot the House ot Re] 

sentatives, be transmitted t<> thi I Connecticut 



TRUMBULL and SHERMAN. 33 

By unanimous consent, the Senate proceeded to consider 
the resolutions. 

Mr. Anthony. Mr. President, it is with more than 
common pleasure that 1 offer this resolution, which I am 
sure will meet with the unanimous vote of the Senate, 
welcoming to the Pantheon of America the statues of the 
two illustrious men whose lives and characters have been 
portrayed with such eloquent truth and fidelity by the 
Senators from the State which claims their glory. But not 
hers alone. Connecticut may indeed hold their memories in 
a' tenderer and more affectionate veneration; Connecticut 
may feel with a greater weight the obligation which their 
example and their characters impose ; but renown like 
theirs passes the boundaries of States, and, spreading from 
ocean to ocean, reaches as wide as the ever expanding 
boundaries of the Republic. Nor is it confined to the 
Republic, for, in all the world, wherever, constitutional 
freedom has gained a foot-hold, wherever in the progress 
of civilization, popular rights shall find recognition and 
protection, the names of Jonathan Trumbull and Roger 
Sherman will be held in honorable remembrance. They 
were great men at a time of great men. They towered 
high among their compeers, when only men of marked 
character rose above the surface. 

Mr. President, when we contemplate the revolutionary 
period of our history and the characters of the men who 
made it illustrious, we estimate, higher and higher, the 
great work which they accomplished and the mighty hands 
that performed it; and with that contemplation naturally 
comes a higher sense of the responsibilty which the lives 
and the labors of such men devolve upon those who sue- 



8 I M i: MORI AL ADDRES8E8 



ceed i" the inheritance \\ 1 1 i < ■ 1 1 thej achieved. Surely, it 
has in.t pleased the all-wise Disposer of events t<> intrust 
to any country a larger measure of the destinies of the 
Future than t<> ours, nor lias II, burdened any generation 
more richly with the hopes of mankind. The reverence 
in which we hold the memories of these nun. and of men 
like them, is ao imperfect test of our fidelity to their 
principles, of our fidelity to our own political duties and 
responsibilities. 
The resolutions were unanimously adopted. 



THE CHEVALIER DE TERNAY 



In the Senate, December 10, 1N73, Mr. Anthony intro- 
duced the following bill : — 

/;. it enacted, <fcc, That the sum of $800, or so much thereof as may 
be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money not otherwise 
appropriated, to defray the expense of repairing and protecting from 
decay the monument erected at Newport, Rhode Island, to the mem- 
ory of the i Invalid' de Ternay, the commander of the French naval 
forces in aid of the American Revolution, in 1780, the money hereby 
appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of 
the Navy. 

In support of the bill Mr. Anthony made the following 
remarks : — 

The 11th of July. 1780, was a memorable day in the history 
of the country. On thai day. the Chevalier Charles Louis 
d'Arsac de Ternay, an admiral in the French navy. Knight 
of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, arrived off the coast 
of Rhode Island, and entered the harbor of Newport, with 
seven ships of the line, two frigates and se\ eral smaller armed 
vessels; and with a convoy of thirty-six transports, carrying 
between six and seven thousand troops, under the command 
of Count de Rochambeau. 

This armament arrived at one of the dark periods of the 
unequal struggle which the American colonies were waging 
with the might of England ; when baffled valor and disheart- 
ened patriotism looked, with faltering faith, to Heaven, for the 



:;ii MEMORJ \ I IDDRERR] 

succor which seemed to he denied to all human effort. \ 
little while before, Wa hington liad written to Joseph Reed, 
■• I li;i\ e almost ceased to hope." 

The arrival of Dc Ternaj and Rochamheau inspirited the 

c ir\ and filled its councils with new hope. Thej were 

received with everj demonstration of official respect and of 
popular gratulation. The General Assemh ated an 

address to the two commanders; the citj of Newport, which 
had long been renowj hechief tdture and social 

refinement in America, welcomed them with ;i cordial and ele- 
gant hospitality, mo id after their wearisome voyage of 

more than two months, and which railed forth enthusiastic 
praises in the correspondence of the Due '!<• Lauzun and others 
of the French officers. The town was illuminated from pave- 
ment to steeple-top ; fire-works blazed along the streets, and 
bonfires lighted up the unequalled harbor in which the friendlj 
vessels were anchored, and on whose broad bosom the n;r. 
of the world mighl ride, with ample space ;m<l safety. 

I need not refer i" the plans of extensive operations that 
were formed 1>\ the French commanders, in consultation with 

■ 

Washington and the chiefs of the continental armj ; nor t" 
the causes whicli [>ostponed the execution of these plans, and 
so long delayed the realization of the hopes founded on the 
alliance with Frai \U this is matter of history . 

The Chevalier dc Ternaj remained in command of the 
French uaval forces in America till his death, which occurred 
on the loth of the following December, very suddenly, at the 
house of Dr. William Hunter, the father of William Hunter, 
who was twice elected a his body, and afterwards 

was appointed ministi r to Brazil ; and grandfather of William 
Hunter, so long and honorablj connected with the Depart- 
ment of State. 



THE CHEVALIER I>E TERN AY. -u 



The Chevalier de Ternay was buried at Newport. With 
the liberality in religious matters which, from the beginning, 
has distinguished the people of Rhode Island, a portion of a 
Protestanl cemetery was set apart for his burial, and conse- 
crated according to the riles of the Roman Catholic Church : 
and in this spot, hallowed by two of the great branches of 
the Christian faith, the warrior who had fought for two coun- 
tries, and in many climes, was laid to his long repose. It 
was in the ground surrounding the venerable and beautiful 
edifice where Honeyman ministered, and where Berkeley 
had preached — Trinity church. The body of the dead 
Admiral was borne on the shoulders of the men whom he 
had commanded. Nine priests chanted the funeral service. 
The imposing ceremonial of the Roman Catholic Church, the 
pomp of military and naval pageantry, the sorrowing pop- 
ulation thai thronged around the grave of their friend and 
ally, made the event long remembered, as the largest and 
most distinguished obsequies that had ever been celebrated 
in that city. 

After the peine, i he king of France placed a memorial over 
the grave of the man who had borne his commission on manj 
seas and had served him with so great fidelity. < >n a slab of 
Egyptian marble, in letters of gold, an epitaph recounts his 
services and commemorates his virtues. The epitaph is in 
Latin. A translation is furnished by an accomplished scholar, 
Sidney Everett, in a very interesting paper read before the 
Historical Society at Newport, and since published in the 
New England Historical and Genealogical Register. It is as 
follows : — 

"Charles Louis d'Arsac de Ternay, a Knight of the Order of St. John 
of Jerusalem, though nol yel having taken the vows, of old and noble 
family of Armorican descent, one of the admirals of the royal fleets, 
a citizen, a soldier and a commander, deserving well of his king and 



ME A10R1 \ i. 1DDE1 

c try for 12 years, lies under ilii- marble. Fortunate and bold, after 

the disaster of St. Croix in the years 1760-61, in spite of tin enemy's 
attacks Mini whli severe labor, he floated of! and go! away the royal 

ahips from the dark whirl] Is, and after 1 1 1«\ had been separated b) 

the tortuous windings ol the dne restored them Baf« to their 

stations, fn the year 1762 he invaded Newfoundland in America. In 

ving up hisc mand, he devoted himself wholly i" governing 

tin Islands ol (Trance and Bourbon during si i. n years, i" the advan- 
oi France, and the happiness of the Colonists. In the year 1780, 
being sent by his most Christian Kii hi Fedei 

struggling for liberty, he occupied Rhode Island. While he «;i~ pre- 
paring himself for nev dangers he died in tlii- city . t" the grief of lii- 
Irlli.u officers, and with the laments and regrets of the Federal States, 
eminent for e^ ery virtue and mourned by hi* friends, on the 15th Dec. 
1780, aged 58. His mosl < hristian Majesty, the judge of virtue, in 
order thai the memory of a distinguished man should I"- i onsecrated 
to posterity . ordered this monuinenl to be placed here in 1783 



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T H E C H E V A L IE R D E T E R > T A Y . 30 

The masonry which supported this marble had crumbled, 
and the whole structure was falling to decay, when it attracted 
the notice of the Marquis de Noailles, the French minister 
at Washington, who immediately directed it to be repaired, 
and a granite slab, suitably inscribed, to be placed over it; 
and removed the marble, with ti^v original inscription, reno- 
vated and restored, to the interim- of the church, where it is 
to be placed in a perpendicular position, with an escutcheon, 
in marble, of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jeru- 
salem. 

It seems manifestly improper that the country should per- 
mit this pious duty to be performed — I will not say by a 
stranger, for the kinsman of La Fayette cannot be a stranger 
in America — but by any individual, or by any other govern- 
ment. De Ternay did not, indeed, like LaFayette, inspired 
by the love of liberty, volunteer his maiden sword in aid of 
our struggling nationality ; but with willing obedience to the 
commands of his sovereign he brought to our assistance skill, 
experience, and a name renowned in war. His premature 
death prevented the benefits which the country expected 
from his services, yet those services, so long as life lasted, 
were appreciated by both governments. His own govern- 
ment honored his sepulchre, and left it in the charge of 
ours, on the soil which he had defended, and among the peo- 
ple whom he had succored. We cannot delegate that trust, 
or permit any but the highest authority to administer it. 

We must not, in the honors which we pay to the heroes of 
our own time, forget those whose deeds illustrate our earlier 
annals, lest the fame which we now celebrate may, in its turn, 
be put aside by that which is not brighter in lustre, but nearer 
to the living generation. But let us hold in equal remem- 
brance those who have identified their names with the glory 



|u M I UOBIAL A !> I' l: I - .- I ifl 



of the country, in whatever time they il ished, and from 

whatever clime thej came. And lei the coming generations 
be taughl thai those who contribute to the defence, the ad- 
vancement, the renown of the great Republic, shall never !"• 
forgotten, bul shall live in grateful remembrance, coeval \\ iili 
its "\\ a i in 1 1 1> 'i t ;i 1 life. 

li ma\ I"- proper, although it is not necessary, to saj thai 
I propose this resolution whollj without the knowled 
the Marquisde Noailles. I ve it- i to the Com- 

mittee "ii Naval Affairs. 

The motion was agreed to. 

Mr. Anthony subsequently said: li has been suggested to 
me, and I thuds myself it would be more gracious, it' the bill 
which I introduced, appropriating $800 for the repair and 

rvationofthe i anient ot thi < bevalier de Ternay, 

should be passed withoul a reference. [ am quite sure no 
one \\ ill object to it. 

The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, 
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third 
time, and passed. 

The following letter upon the subject was addressed to 
Mr. Anthonj l>\ the Marquis de Noailles, the French Min- 
ister ai Washington : — 

Washington, D ember 20th, It 
M ; i dear S< nato 

I have read with a deep feeling of gratitude, the bill passed on 
il,,. [6th of December bj the Senate, concerning the sepulchral mon- 
ument of the Chevalier de Ternay. It anything could add to the 
value of such a manifestation timent,il would 

he the courteous manner in which this bill has been passed and adopt- 
ed l'\ unanimous consent. The French Government aud the French 
people "ill certainlj I"- extremelj sensible oi such a prool of the 
pious recollection which the presi nl generation pn serv< Bof what has 



THE C H E V A L I E K I) E IIBKAY. 41 



been done in former limes, and it becomes my pleasant duty to remark 
that in American hearts, if I may use here a metaphor which does not 
seem foreign to the subject, the memory of the aid given by France 
to the young Republic has been more lasting than the Egyptian marble 
erected in the tomb of de Ternay. 

The assistance which your people, in their infancy, received from 
the old world, you have since amply repaid, by what you have done to 
the cause of humanity, in extending civilization and the true principles 
of liberty, from ocean to ocean, over the immensity of the new Amer- 
ican continent. 

So far as I am concerned, I feel it a great honor that my name 

should have been mentioned before so illustrious a body as the Senate 

of the United States. 

$ * # # * 

I remain, my dear Senator, very sincerely yours, 

MARQUIS DE NOAILLES. 

Mr. Washburne, the American Minister at Paris, communi- 
cated a copy of the bill, with the speech, to the Duke do ( !azas, 
the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, who replied in a note, 
of which the following' is a, translation : — 

Versailles, Jannary 14, 1N74. 
My dear Minister: — 

1 thank you for your note enclosing the speech of Mr. Anthony, 
in support of tin appropriation for the restoration of the tomb of the 
Admiral d'Arsac de Ternay. who died during the war of independence. 
The Marquis de Noailhs hail alreadj advised me of this resolution 
and of the unanimous assent which it received. 

Demonstrations of this kind are honorable alike to those who make 
them and to those in whose behalf they are rendered. I deem myself 
fortunate in the occasion to assure you how promptly the generous 
sentiments expressed on the other side of the Atlantic have found an 
ecdio ill the hearts of the French people anil of the government 
The memories evoked in such felicitous terms by the Senator from 
Rhode Island, are equally precious In your country and to our own; 
and the eloquent voice which recalls to the attention of the living 



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\i 1. tlOBIAIi A nil i: i 



generation the achievements in which Admiral d'Araac Di Ternaj 
i, on i part, is heard with thi same pleasure in Paris u in Washing- 
ton 

Accept th< assui i i the high consideration with which I hav< 

the honor to be, ni\ dear tninisl i 

yoiir verj humble and obedienl servant, 

hit hi: CAZAS 







ex 



CL~-£-*~, 



CHARLES SUMNER. 



Charles Sumner died in Washington, March 11, 1874, 
after an illness of a few hours. Mr. Bout well, the surviving 
Senator from Massachusetts, was ill. and not able id attend 
in the Senate, and announce the death of his colleague, and 
he with the delegation from Massachusetts, in the House, 
requested Mr. Anthony to perform that sad duty. The 
Senate having been called to order. Mr. Anthony spoke as 
follows : — 

Mr. President : In the absence of the Senator to whom this 
saddest duty appertains, and who is detained from the Senate 
by illness, the surviving Senator from Massachusetts, I have 
been requested to make to you the formal announcement of an 
event which my heart refuses d> accept, and which my lips 
hesitate to declare. It. is an event which needs not to lie 
announced, for its dark shadow rests gloomily upon this 
chamber, and not only upon the Senate and the capital, hut 
upon the whole country, and the intelligence of which, borne 
on the mysterious wires that underlie the seas, has been 
already carried to the remotest lands, and has aroused pro- 
foundest sympathy, wherever humanity weeps for a friend, 
wherever liberty deplores an advocate. The oldest member 
of this body in continuous service, he who yesterday was the 
oldest, beloved for the graces and the virtues of his personal 
character, admired for his genius and his accomplishments, 



II MEMORIAL ADDRESSES. 



reverenced for the fidelity \\ iili which be adhered to his con- 
victions, illustrious for disservices to the Republic and to the 
world, ha d the dark river thai divides us from the 

■■ undisco^ ered counl \\ ." 

Charles Sumner died yesterday. To-day, in humble sub- 
mission i" the divine will, we meel to express our reaped 
for his character, our veneration i "• • 1 ■ 1 1 1 — memory. To-mor- 
row, with solemn Bteps and with Borrowing hearts, we Bhall 
bear him to the Massachusetts which he served so faithfully, 
and which loved him so well; and to her Boil, precious with 
the dusl of patriotism and of valor, of letters and of art, of 
statesmanship and of eloquence, we shall commil the bodj of 

• who is worthj to resl b\ the m<Ic of the uoblesl and the 

besl of those who, in the centuries of her historj . have made 

herthe model of a free c monwealth. Bui thegreal deeds 

which illustrated his Life shall no< !"■ buried with him, and 
never shah 1 the earth cover the immortal principles to which 
he devoted every energj of his soul — the consummation and 
vindication of which, as his highest reward, a gracious G 
permitted him to \\ itness. 

Mr. President, this is no< the time, nor is the office mine. 
to pronounce the words thai are due to thisevent. A future 
hour and more fitting utterances shall interpret to the Ameri- 
can people the affectionate respecl of the Senate to our dead 
associate, the I tage which ii renders to his life and char- 
acter. 

Mr. President, I offer the following resolutions: — 

//. olved, Thai acommitteeof -i\ members be nppointed l>\ the 
Presidenl ol the Senate pro U mport . to lake order tor superintending 
the funeral of « harlee Sumner, late a member of this body, wbicli 
will lake- place to-morrow (Fridaj ) al half pasl twelve; and thai the 
Senate will attend the Bame. 



C II A E L B S S D M N E R . 45 

Resolved, As ;i further mark of respect entertained by the Senate 
for the memory of Charles Sumner, ami his long and distinguished 
services to his country, that his remains be removed to the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, in charge of (he Sergeant-at-Arms, ami 
attended by a committee of seven Senators, to he appointed by the 
President of the Senate pro tempore, who shall have full power in 
carry this resolution into effect. 

Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 

The President pru tempore appointed the following com- 
mittee under tin' resolution : — 

Committee of Arrangements. — Messrs. Anthony, Schurz, 
Frelinghuysen, Morrill, of .Maine, Stevenson and Thurman. 

Committee /" accompany the remains, and to act as pall- 
bearers. — Messrs. Anthony, Schurz, Stockton, Sargent, < *gles- 
by, ami Mc< Ireery. 

< >n tin' next day. the body of Mr. Sumner, after appropri- 
ale and impressive funeral ceremonies, was conveyed from 
Washington, in a special train, in charge of the committee, 
and accompanied by a, committee of the House of Represent- 
atives and the delegation from Massachusetts, as mourners. 

The body was delivered to the Governor of Massachusetts, 
at Doric Hall in the State-house, where, besides the Governor, 
were the Executive Council, committees of the two houses <>i' 
the Legislature, the Mayor of Boston, and other official per- 
sonages. Arrived at the State-house, Mr. Anthony, chairman 
of the committee of the Senate, addressed the Governor as 
t'nl lows : — 

May it please Your Excellency: — We are commanded l>\ 
the Senate of the United States to render back to you your 
illustrious dead. Nearly a, quarter of a century ago, you 
dedicated to the public service a man who was, even then, 



16 MEMORIAL A.DDKE88] 

greatlj distinguished. He remained in it, quickening 
patriotism, informing its counsels, and leading in its delibera- 
tions, until, having survived in continuous service ;ill bis 
original a . be has closed lii- earl I i . With 

reverenl hands we bring to you lii> mortal part, thai ii 
m:i\ be committed to the soil of the renowned Common- 
wealth which gave him birth. Take ii : ii i- yours. The 
pari which «<■ 'I" uol return to you is no! wholly yours 
to receive, nor altogether ours to give. Ft belongs to the 
country, to freedom, i" civilization, to humanity. Wi come 

to you with the emblems of urning, which faintly typifj 

the sorrovi thai dwells in the breasts which the} cover, 
much we mus le t" the infirmit) of human nature. 

Bui in the vievi of reason and philosophy, is it nol i ;i 1 1 n - 1- ;i 
matter of high exultation thai a life so pure in its personal 
qualities, so loftj in its public aims, so fortunate in the fru- 
ition of noble effort, has closed safely, withoul a stain, before 
age had impaired its intellectual vigor, before time had 
dimmed the lustre of it- genius? 

[fay it phasi ) Excellency: Our mission is accom- 

plished. We commil to you the body of Charles Sumner. 
His undying fame, the Muse of Histon has already taken 
into her keeping. 

On the 2 Vpril, L874, the following resolutions were 

introduced into the Senate by Mr. Boutwell, of Massachu- 
setts: — 

lived by thi S I - ill additi I mark of respect to the 

irj ni Charles Sumner, lon^ - ova Massachusetts, 

business In- n"\\ su the friends and associates ol the 

deceased may paj fitting tribute to his public and private virti 

Sen it.' communicate these 
olutions i" Mi. I [ou 



CHARLES SUMNEB. 47 

The resolutions were adopted unanimously. Addresses 
were made by Mr. Boutwell of Massachusetts, Mr. Thurman 
of Ohio, Mr. Spencer of Alahama, Mr. Morrill of Vermont, 
Mr. Pratt of Indiana, Mr. Sargent of California, Mr. Sher- 
man of Ohio, Mr. Wadleigh of New Hampshire, and Mr. 
Anthony of Rhode Island, who made the closing speech as 
Follows : — 

Mr. /';- sident : 1 ran add nothing of narration or of eulogy 
to uliai has been said, and so well said. Mr. Sumner's life, 
his character and his services have been fittingly presented, 
and on both sides of the chamber. The generous voices of 
political opponents have followed the affectionate praises of 
devoted friends, and nothing remains, but to close this sad 
and august observance. Yet something forbids my entire 
silence, and impels me to interpose a lew sentences, before 
the subject passes from the consideration of the Senate. 

M\ acquaintance with Mr. Sumner commenced previous 
to my entrance into this body, where it ripened into a friend- 
ship, which will always remain among the most agreeable 
recollections of my public life. I remained associated with 
him, until every oilier seat in the chamber, except one, had 
changed its occupant, and eight new ones had been added. 
Some left us in the ordinary chances and changes of political 
fortunes; some were transferred to other departments of the 
public service ; and of these some have returned again to the 
Senate. Some, as Douglas, and Baker, and Collamer, and 
Foot, and Fessetiden, fell, like Sumner, at their posts, and 
like him were borne to their final repose, with all the demon- 
strations of public gratitude, of official respect, and of popular 
affection, with which a generous constituency decorates the 
memory of those whose lives have been spent in its service, 
and who have worthily worn its honors. 



^ MEMORIAL IDDBESBES 



1'iui Mr. Sumner's constituenc} was the Republic, widi as 
its farthest boundary and permeating it- utmost limits; for 
he was conspicuous!} the representative of a principle which, 
although seminal in the organization of 1 1 ± » - Government, \\a- 
sloV) of growth and fructified largely under his care. When 
the intelligence of his death followed bo close upon the firsl 
intimation of his danger, ii fell with an equal Bhock upon all 

classes of society, uj "all sorts and conditions of men ;" ii 

invaded, with equal sorrow, the abodes of luxurj and the 
col tages of the i c — 

/,'. nmqw turn s. 

The scholar closed his book and the laborer leaned upon his 
spade. The highest In the land mourned their peer, tin- low- 
liest lamented their friend. ll<>\\ well hi* life had earned 

this universal testh i\ of respect; hov» naturally the broad 

sympathy which he had manifested for the wronged and the 
injured of ever} condition came back to honor his memory, it 
is ii, ,1 m\ purpose to enlarge upon. His eulog} is hi> life : 

hi- epitaph is the general grief ; bis i ument, builded by hi> 

own hands, is the eternal statutes of freed 

Mi. President, when I look back over this long period, 
crowded with greal events, and which has witnessed the 
convulsion of tin' uation, tin- reorganization and reconstruc- 
tion of our political system ; when, in m} mind's eye, I people 
this chamber with those whose forms have been familiar to 
me, whose names, man} of them historical names, have been 
labelled on thesi desks, and are ti"\\ carved on the marble 
that covers their dust, I am filled \\ itfa a sadness inexpressible, 
mi full of consolation. For, musing on the transitory nature 
,.l all sublunar} things, I come to perceive that their insta- 
bility is not in their essence, but in the forms which the} 



CHARLES SUMNER. 4!) 



assume, and in the agencies that operate upon tliem : and 
when I recall those whom I have seen fall around me, and 
whom I thought necessary to the success, almost to the preser- 
vation of great principles, I recall also those whom I have 
seen step into the vacant places, put on the armor which 
they wore, lift the weapons which they wielded, and march on 
to the consummation of the work which they inaugurated. 
And thus I am filled with reverent wonder at the beneficent 
ordering of nature, and inspired with a loftier faith in that 
Almighty Power, without whose guidance and direction all 
human effort is vain, and with whose Messing the humbles! 
instruments that lie selects are equal to the mightiest work 
that He designs. 



WILLIAM \. Ill ( KINGH \M. 



William A. Bi ■mm.iiam died al Norwich, February 
5, 1-7.".. (>n the 27th of the same month, M; I rry of 
Connecticut introduced into tin- Senate a resolution of 
respect I'm- his memory. < >n this resolution Mr. Anthony 
spoke as follows: — 

U . President, 

"'I'll.- chamber where the good man meets his fate 
[a prh ilegi .1 bi yond the common walk 
i >r virtuous life ; quite in th a." 

resolution of the Senator from Connecticul bid 
pause in tin- pro of the closing ---ion. ih.it we 

may render honor to a good man: one who, in a long lit',-. 
crowded with active duties and largelj occupied with the 
rnsible control of important public affairs, did not fail 
in what he owed to himself ami to his fellow-men, ami 
who ha- left on his imnil nothing that those who ' 
him host ami who grieve for him most would wish to 
efface. 

There is nothing certain in life hut death. 

'• I •■>■ their time to fall. 

And flowers to uiili. r at ill.' north wind's breath, 

Ami -In- I.. Bet ; I. lit all, — 

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, <> Death!" 




CTfh/AuM 




WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM. 51 



And when death comes early, when it crushes the bud- 
ding loveliness of childhood or treads upon the bloom of 
youth, or even when it tramples on the strength of manhood, 
the natural grief that we feel is aggravated, because the 
event is as untimely as it is severe, and we murmur that 
it contradicts the order of nature. 

But when the pale messenger lays his hand upon an 
accomplished life, a life that has rounded out the years 
which experience and inspiration assign as the desirable 
limit of human duration ; when these years have been 
occupied with usefulness, rewarded by success, and 
crowned with honors ; when a good man, having dis- 
charged the duties and fulfilled the trusts of life, lies 
down, calmly and peacefully, to his final repose, we may 
grieve, but we cannot complain. The tears of affection 
may not indeed be kepi back, but the voice of reason is 
silenced. To complain at the close of such a life is to 
complain that the ripened fruit drops from the overloaded 
bough, that the golden harvest fiends to the sickle ; it is 
to complain of the law of our existence, and to accuse 
the Creator, that In: did not make man immortal on the 
earth. For such a life eloquence shall lift her voice and 
poetry shall string her lyre. For such a man, praise, honor, 
imitation; hut not tears! Tears for him who has failed; 
tears for him who fainted on the wayside; not for him 
who finished the journey ; tears for him who, through his 
fault or his misfortune, omitted to employ the oppor- 
tunities that were given to him for the work that was 
assigned to him, not for him who died when he had 
accomplished that for which lie lived. 

We will lament, therefore, in no complaining spirit, 
fur the man whose memory we celebrate to-day. With 






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our grief thai be has died shall be mingled cur thank- 
fulness thai he has Lived The State thai he Berved 
so faithfully and so well, in the time of her greatest 

emergency, pr lly Lifts his name, and inscribes it on the 

roll of her li iv<l and remembered sons. And the his- 
tory of thai State cannol be fairly written without honor- 
able mention of his character and Ins services. The Sen- 
ate which li>- informed with wise councils, which he 
adorned with dignity of manners and with purity of Life, 
bears equal testimony to liis abilities and to lii> virtues, 
and equal honor to his memory. 



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